The much anticipated Firefox 2.0 was launched by the Mozilla Foundation yesterday - and immediately generated a storm of protests over privacy issues.

Key to privacy concerns is that Mozilla have set up their long-awaited phishing protection feature on Firefox 2.0 - but to use it properly, you have to send Google a record of every single website you visit.

我覺得總比 ie 7 送回給 ms 好。

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Nah, Google knows too much about each individual...

For example: Google's Gmail, Calendar, newsgroups, and social network...

If you choose to check with Google about each site you visit, Google will receive the URLs of pages you visit for evaluation. When you click to accept, reject, or close the warning message that Phishing Protection gives you about a suspicious page, Google will log your action and the URL of the page. Google will receive standard log information, including a cookie, as part of this process. Google will not associate the information that Phishing Protection logs with other personal information about you. However, it is possible that a URL sent to Google may itself contain personal information. Please see the Google Privacy Policy for more information.

使用 google 服務之前會有提示資訊。

如果你選擇讓 Google 檢查你拜訪的每個網站，Google 將會收到你瀏覽的頁面網址以便與黑名單比對。當安全瀏覽提示您可疑的網頁，而你接受、拒絕或關閉警告視窗時，Google 會記錄你的選擇以及該頁面網址。 Google 也會收到標準 記錄資訊，包含 Cookie 和一部分的操作記錄。Google 不會將詐騙防護記錄檔中有關你的個人資訊與我們所擁有的其他資訊作關聯，但是 網址本身可能就含有你的隱私資訊。詳情請查看 Google 隱私權政策。

It is possible to disable it. However, it is enabled by default.

看設定選項中，預設並不是每次都送回給 google。



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